Book: Sorcerer's Wings

I think this way: if you can do something yourself, then take it and do it. But if you find yourself in a critical situation, for example, your hands are shackled, and there is a locking sign above your head - shout, ask, beg for help. Another question is whether anyone will come.

Next to someone else's perfection, their own flaws seem even uglier.

“What doesn't kill makes us stronger,” the magician replied, stroking her fingers gently, and Till took her hand away. “No,” she said. “What doesn't kill makes us angry at the world, broken and ultimately lonely.

The school classroom is like a model of society, where everything is exaggerated and enlarged, as if under a magnifying glass.

“Just get out of your grave, Matilda,” he said. “It’s scary to open up to people, but to live hundreds of years like this, voluntarily walled yourself up, is much more scary.

There are trashy periods in life, but they pass. And it is important to leave them there, in the past.